Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mutko had not been named in the WADA report as being directly involved in the cover ups. Russia suspends senior sports officials over Olympic doping scandalSERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS A view through a fence, decorated with the Olympic rings, shows a building of the federal state budgetary institution "Federal scientific centre of physical culture and sports", which houses a laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), in Moscow, Russia. Russia suspended a raft of senior sports officials on Tuesday (Wednesday NZ Time) after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said they were heavily involved in a state-backed cheating scheme at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics. Russian President Vladimir Putin had said on Monday (Tuesday NZT) that any government officials identified in the WADA report, which found evidence of widespread cheating at the Sochi Games, would be temporarily suspended. "There were no accusations made against me and there cannot be because it is absolutely unrealistic and impossible."

Source: Stuff July 19, 2016 16:18 UTC